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The February 2026 issue is out

(2 February 2026) — The second issue of volume 48 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 2 February. It includes three articles. The first, Revealing the lichenised and lichenicolous diversity of Parangalitsa Reserve, Bulgaria: first records of two noteworthy species for the country by Snezhina Popova and Veselin V. Shivarov, presents two noteworthy new records for… [read more]

The January 2026 issue has been published

(5 January 2026) — The first issue of volume 48 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 5 January. It includes three articles. The first, New records of arboreal beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Bulgaria by Borislav Guéorguiev, Veselin Ivanov, Margarita Georgieva, Sevdalin Belilov, Denitsa Petrova and Georgi Georgiev, reports fifteen species of arboreal beetles… [read more]

Issue 12 is out, volume 47 is complete, and more information for the authors

(1 December 2025) — Issue 12 of volume 47 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 1 December. It includes three articles. The first, A new host plant record for Dioszeghyana schmidtii (Dioszeghy, 1935) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from Greece: implications for larval ecology and conservation by Angelos Tsikas, reports the first larval host plant record for the rare and… [read more]

The November 2025 issue is out

(3 November 2025) — Issue 11 of volume 47 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 3 November. It includes three articles. The first, Zygaena sedi Fabricius 1787 discovered and burned on Sakar Mts in Bulgaria by Ana Nahirnić-Beshkova and Ivaylo Todorov, reports the fifth locality of the rare species Zygaena sedi in Bulgaria. The second, The type specimens of Keroplatidae… [read more]

Changes to our policies and guidelines for authors

(22 October 2025) — Come into effect immediately, the changes are on the About and editorial policies, Publication ethics and malpractice statement, and Author guidelines pages. In order to recognise an individual author’s contribution within a publication, it is now mandatory to indicate the contributor role for each of the co-authors. To facilitate authors, an online tool has… [read more]

New members of the editorial board of Historia naturalis bulgarica

(2 October 2025) — At a meeting of the Scientific Council of the National Museum of Natural History, held on 2 October 2025 (minutes number 142), the following four new editors of Historia naturalis bulgarica were elected: Dr Zsolt Bálint, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Assoc. Prof. Dr Larissa Ivanova, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia; Assoc. Prof.… [read more]

The October 2025 issue has been published

(1 October 2025) — Issue 10 of volume 47 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 1 October. It includes three articles. The first, Acmaeoderella (Euacmaeoderella) villosula (Steven, 1830), a new record of jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Bulgaria by Mark G. Volkovitsh, Vladimir Sakalian, Chavdar Gussev and Georgi Georgiev, reports Acmaeoderella (Euacmaeoderella)… [read more]

HNB cyber news September 2025

(23 September 2025) — Starting today, 23 September 2025, the website of our journal Historia naturalis bulgarica utilises a new responsive design for use on various devices with a screen size of less than 400 pixels. Also, starting today, an individual tracking module is available for authors whose works are already in or entering our manuscript management system. Other modules of… [read more]

The September 2025 issue is out

(1 September 2025) — Issue 9 of volume 47 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 1 September. It includes three articles. The first, A small family unit of house mouse (Mus musculus) with anomalous colouration in Slovakia by Alexander Csanády, presents research on a small family unit of house mouse from Slovakia, where thirteen individuals exhibited anomalous colouration… [read more]

The August 2025 issue has been published

(1 August 2025) — Issue 8 of volume 47 of Historia naturalis bulgarica was published today, 1 August. It includes two articles. The first, Studies on the Balkan Lepidoptera I by Stoyan Beshkov and Ana Nahirnić-Beshkova, presents data on 442 species of Lepidoptera from more than 120 localities with numerous genera and species new to Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia,… [read more]